description

It is well-known that beyond their default association with standard questions acts (Searle 1969), interrogative clauses can be employed for a wide variety of “special” uses. These have been classified, among others, as rhetorical, expository, reflective, surprise-and-disapproval, reprise, exam and quiz questions (cf., e.g., Truckenbrodt 2004). It is also well-known that such special uses can be signaled by special grammatical means − prosody, word order, particles etc. − giving rise to “special interrogatives” in many languages (cf., e.g., Obenauer 2006). Our workshop is intended to bring together researchers interested in contributing to deeper and more systematic descriptions and theoretical modelings of “the grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses.” Topics that may be addressed at the workshop include but are by no means exhausted by:

abstract submission

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